Intensity modulated high-dose-rate brachytherapy boost complementary to external beam radiation for intermediate- and high-risk localized prostate cancer patients-How we do it in Lübeck/Germany

Brachytherapy

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 142-148

  Kovács, György ^a   Melchert, Corinna ^a   Sommerauer, Martin ^a   Walden, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D transrectal ultrasound; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Interstitial brachytherapy; Intraoperative treatment planning; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; GERMANY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GERMANY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RISK FACTORS; TUMOR BURDEN; ULTRASOUND, HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED, TRANSRECTAL;

EID: 34147108345     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2007.02.062     Document Type: Article

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